The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

the manufacturer is compelled % mako
monthly returns. Penalties are provided
BY the govern ment for infractions Of IL
rules and regulations.
The internal revenue system ls what
is termed q war measure, for It sprang
into existence during the early years Of
the war, but az at present constituted,
with all the Objectionable and onerous
features eliminated and the internal
revenue laws administered in the light
of years Of experience, is not hardship
upon either the leaf dealer or cigar
manufacturer. The former wants the
system abolished because 1t restricts him
to narrow circle Of customers, and the
latter wants 1t preserved because It pre-
vents small manufacturers from be-
coming his business rivals and because
the caution notice which the government
requires upon every box Of cigars is q
measure of protection to him. Canada,
which has an internal revenue system
modelled upon ours, goes . step further
every cigar factory in the Dominion to
|
Our governments tax of % q thousand
cigars is infinitesimally small, and is
borne by the people and not by the man
ufacturer.
The manufacturer first takes the wrap
pers and reswests them. This process
sets the colors uniformly and makes the
| tobacco of q rich dark hue. Then he
takes the wrappers, binders and filters
and cases them-that is, moistens them
by administering fine sprays Of water.
| If filters are alone to be cased, some
1avoring extract known as the genuine
Vuelta Abajo Havana flavor is mixed with
| the water, and the filters are then put
into hot room and afterward spread on
floor 80 that they are made perfectly
dry. The wrappers and filters are given
to strippers, who carefully tear out the
stems the filters are also stripped,
although not so much care is taken with
them.
Cigarmaking is divided into three or
| more classes The bunch-breaker or the
person who makes the punches or the
filler of cigar and puts on the binder !;
the roller, who puts on the wrapper and
gives the cigar its finishing touch, and
the packer, who asserts the cigars accord
ing to their color, and packs them
note the colors of cigars, and IL is Q
remarkable fact that cigars become
more and more Spanish as they come
nearer and nearer to the con-
sumer's hands. The terms that are
used in connection with the cigsrmaking
handicraft itself are nearly all Teutonic.
Claro signifies the ightest color; colo
RADIO claro, the next darker; colorado,
medium; colorado maduro, medium
dark; maduro, dark; obscure, black.
The bunch-breaker has q wooden mold,
| or form, into which he Grams tobacco
until it is quite full, laying the tobacco
endwise, so that the cigar will have q
perfect draught and draw we'll when
smoked. The mold, which is provided
with cups of the exact size and dimen-
sions of the cigar required, has a lid
which is made to fit in the bottom. The
bunch-breaker has The binder first placed
in the mold, which, when the top is
pressed upon the mold, forms bunch.
After standing in the press for four or
five hours, the bunch Is turned over to
the roller. A mold has places in 1t for
twenty punches. These are deftly COW
cred with tobacco of the wrapper class
by the roller, the shape of the cigar hav-
ing been acquired by the mold.
The part for lighting is called the tuck
or end, for there it is that operations are
commenced for putting on the wrapper;
the tobacco is tucked in as the cigar is
rolled around. The cigars point is called
the head, for there is where the cigar 10
finished.
1t is the universal custom among cigar
makers, Cuban cigarmakers included, to
bite off superfluous tobacco with their
teeth, and to finish cigars head after 1t
has been pasted with q preparation Of
gum tragacanth, by rolling 1t between
their lips. That no disease is thereby
propagated is due, no doubt, to the dis
covery recently made by microscopists.
They say that tobacco Is the purest of
vegetable substances when placed under .
microscope. There is an entire absence
of micro-organism of every description.
While almost all things in nature are
alive with animated substances-bacte.
ria, animalcule, microbes or fungi of
some kind tobacco is entirely free
of everything of the sort. It pre-
sents nothing to the microscope but its
fibres and texture-its organic struc.
ture.
This is the reason why vast quantities
of cigars have been and are made in
tenement houses, amid the most squalid
and dirtiest surroundings imaginable,
with no bad results from smoking them.
have described the method of making
the "twofors" and nickel cigars, which
are the majority Of all cigars smoked.
Another method is employed in making
cigars which approaches the workman
ship Of Cuba, after which all cigarmak-
ers of every country pattern. In hand
made cigars the cigarmaker takes some
tobacco in the middle of his hand, puts
Q binder around it and places q wrapper
about it, fashioning 1t to any size or
length desired. Cuban workmen are the
most skillful and command the highest
wages. From the proneness of the aver
age German or Bohemian cigarmaker,
who makes mold cigars, to strike, manu-.
facturers have taught girls the trade of
cigarmaking, and the opening Of new
industry to them has resulted in swelling
the cigarmakers' ranks with neat and
capable girl cigarmakers.
Much has been said about tenement
house cigars. This IL the plan of opera
tions pursued: The manufacturer rents
a row of buildings, in one of which he
fixes his Office and store-rooms; the other
rooms he let's to cigarmakers and their
families. Every morning leaf tobacco is
given them, which they must turn into so
many cigars. The manufacturer makes
. profit on his rent, and by getting fam